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As an author, it's a given that I love books. But I also love book culture, book aesthetic, and especially book people. I've been a...
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Jan 22, 20204 min read
Writing vs. Editing
We authors are required to wear many hats — author, publicist, fedora, beret (preferably in raspberry ... See how I just slid that...
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Nov 12, 20197 min read
Doubling Down on Sad: Where Depression and Grief Collide
I originally posted this to my grief blog: forloveofevelyn.com, but decided to share it here because it deals with depression in addition...
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Nov 5, 20196 min read
Social Media for the Emotionally Challenged
I'm not depressed. I am emotionally challenged. Actually. I'm grieving. And I have PTSD. And I'm depressed. It's a veritable Happy Meal...
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Oct 23, 20197 min read
Post Release Blues
I'm doing that thing. That thing you're never supposed to do. That thing I have been warned against and keep doing anyway, where I get...
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Sep 16, 20198 min read
The Novel I Wish I Never Wrote
They say life imitates art. I sincerely hope that isn't true. When my 18-year-old daughter unexpectedly died in her sleep two months...
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Jun 24, 20194 min read
Writing on the Dark Side of the Moon
I have always been a lover of words and those things only words can build — stories, books, the voices of people with extraordinary...
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Apr 12, 20196 min read
A Husky Lover Responds to Jerome Flynn
In totally unbookish news, Jerome Flynn — star who plays Bronn in Game of Thrones — has joined with PETA to post a video asking people to...
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Mar 1, 20193 min read
Preventing a Tragedy like the Fosters'
In Resurrection Girls, main character, Olivia, is grappling with a family deeply paralyzed by their grief several years after the...
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Sep 12, 20184 min read
Toxic Friends
The first time someone described the relationship between my main characters in Resurrection Girls as "toxic", it took me aback. I'm not...
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Jul 24, 20181 min read
Our Story
If you're going to read my novels, if you're going understand me as a writer, as a mother, as a person, then you should know my story....
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